Fritz
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Industry | Publishing |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Book Reviewer |
| Location | Lambeau Field, Wisconsin, United States |
| Introduction | Heroes: my parents, Konrad Adenauer, Ulysses S. Grant, the Kreisau Circle, John Paul II, Brett Favre (as long as he doesn't play for the Vikings), William F. Buckley, Jr. |
| Interests | Fencing, Épée, Green Bay Packers, Notre Dame Football, German history, owls, J.R.R. Tolkien, G.K. Chesterton, movie soundtracks, Rheinland, military history, MST3K, Pinky and the Brain, Steven Wright, German Soccer, World Cup, Euro Cup, Catholic Church history, international relations, foreign policy, international economics, books, U.S. Grant, Machiavelli, Konrad Adenauer, Geschichte, Deutsche Geschichte, Militärgeschichte, Politik, Bücher, Fechten, Degen, Dürer, Adolph von Menzel, Friedrich der Grosse, aka, Frederick the Great, family games, e.g., El Grande, Die Siedler von Catan, aka, Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne |
| Favorite movies | A Foreign Field, Lord of the Rings, Zulu, Das Leben der Anderen, aka, The Lives of Others, MST3K, Treasure Island (1990), Galaxy Quest, The Music Man, Amazing Grace, Chariots of Fire, Stargate, Airplane!, The Mummy (1999), Mystery Men, North by Northwest, Black Hawk Down, Das Boot, Dodgeball, Monsters Inc., The Incredibles, The Flight of the Phoenix, Fantastic Voyage, The Count of Monte Cristo (2002), Rudy, Hotel Rwanda, The Great Escape, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Arabian Nights (2000), Toy Story, The Scarlet Pimpernell (1982), Princess Bride, What About Bob?, Groundhog Day, Dracula: Dead and Loving It, Master and Commander, Der Tunnel, The Man Who Knew Too Little, LotR, SOME FAVORITE TV SHOWS:, Mission Impossible, (hate the MI movies!), Chuck, Life, Police Squad, (in color), Pinky and the Brain |
| Favorite music | Bach, Beethoven, Brubeck, Johann Strauss II, Anne Sofie von Otter, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Fritz Wunderlich, Marschmusik, Military Marches, Handel, Mozart, Howard Shore, David Arnold, John Powell, Jerry Goldsmith |
| Favorite books | Bible, Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, some favorite authors, Edmund Burke, J.R.R. Tolkien, G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, Goethe, Longfellow, Fulton Sheen, Paul Johnson, Luke Timothy Johnson, William F. Buckley Jr., Machiavelli, J.K. Rowling, Richard John Neuhaus, Martin Gilbert, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Gary Larson, The Far Side |